... were produced a year apart, but each came to the screen from different places. While Casablanca was based upon an earlier screenplay, Citizen Kane was an original work written by Orson Wells and Herman Mankiewicz. While Citizen Kane was an American Drama based following the life of Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, Casablanca was a Romantic Drama following the expatriate & night club ... owner, Rick Blaine, in the city of Casablanca, Morocco. The original ideas for Citizen Kane came from Orson Wells who wanted to write a screenplay about a newspaper magnate Charles Randolph Hearst;...

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... we should bear in mind that it was a result of co-action of four main players that make Citizen Kane the film it is: Orson Welles the director/writer/producer/actor, Gregg Toland the cinematographer, Herman Mankiewicz the writer, and William Randolph Hearst, the inspiration. Strange as it ... of theater, reinvents this idea by replacing outward theatrical indicators with subtler cinematic ones. The figure of Charles Foster Kane -- like the protagonists in many of Orson Welles' other films -- is a tragic, I'd say Faustian one, wherein idealism and great power give way to hubris and event...

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